Three key legal issues currently facing the Esports industry: A perspective from Asia

LawInSport has published a range of articles to try to help demystify the esports ecosystem and unpick the core legal issues.1

Continuing in this theme, this piece discusses what the authors, with their Malaysian perspective, believe are three of the most important legal issues that the Esports industry currently has to grapple with, namely:

Greater clarity on contractual obligations

“E-doping”, and

Intellectual property and broadcasting rights

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